Today on the World Wide Web there are literally over 1 billion websites and this figure is still growing at an exponential rate. The issue which holds the core attention in website design these days is the aspect of 'Indexing the website’. No matter if you have a great looking site, if it isn't 'indexed' well; search engines will not find it in the first place leave alone any listings and traffic. The ranking of the page of your site is decided by the manner that page is indexed into a search engine's database.
There are different ways we index a site and these days this is key to a prominent position on the Internet. Currently on the Web less than 8 % of sites can be accessed easily and of these only a further 5-6% are indexed properly and further out of this only less than 1/3rd are fully functional and valid enough for access to the general Internet users. Rest all are gets buried in the cyber dust of web to the point of near inaccessibility.
WDC is specialized in indexing methods that are extremely successful and now some of our clients are attracting huge amount of traffic by being on the first page of a search that often will yield hundreds of thousands of results.
See - the Google’s Opinion
Visit the Google’s guidelines for sitemap which wisely clarify the merit of creating site maps and directing to offer a site map for your users with links that point to the important segments of your site.
Ofcourse using an XML site map do allows you to instantly index every page on your site. Even many of you are using your archives essentially as a solution for this problem, See, archive pages of WordPress, CMS etc do not contain links to all the pages and related syndication feeds of your site. On top of that, most archives also fail to link to every post. So using them is not considered a good practice. Even using XML sitemap is just a good SEO advice for optimisation of any of the site but still there are some SEO issues need to work out beyond the criteria of displaying links.
In order to have an effective indexing of your site, you should better create an XHTML sitemap to link every page. This XHTML sitemap is certainly going to work w.r.t. any of the designed, layout or template on which your site is builds.
If you are using WordPress theme
With WordPress implementing effective XHTML sitemap is quiet an easy task. It’s even not that difficult to activate your new sitemap; it can be achieved in the following pattern.
1st you should upload your sitemap.php to your active WordPress theme directory. In the administration panel- on write page- fill in the title.
Select s sitemap template from the page template dropdown box. Finally click on create new page.
In order to download the XHTML sitemap generator Template for WordPress 2.1 or higher Visit:
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Ofcourse you certainly have to work on the sitemap style later. Well to get back the relative style of the sitemap w.r.t. rest of your site is a very easy process even for those who are not familiar with WordPress theme files or XHTML. You just have to delete the codes in the existing page.php file and copy all of the code that lies between the opening and closing tags and then saving the file.
In case you are using Cutline theme
In case of Cutline theme; you can download the specifically formatted XHTML Sitemap for better indexing.
Conclusion
Using XHTML sitemap certainly is the best option for linking to all of the pages on your site as it is a step forward in building a topical keyword index of your site. In other cases pages are all definately get buried several layers down in Wordpress- once they get a bit older. This method is especially helpful for search engines that don’t take advantage of the XML sitemap which is linked to at the bottom of every page.
I do hope that this article helps in shining the SEO ratings of your site and to subsequent accelerating traffic. Still if you’ve got any more tips or hints on better indexing then let me know through commenting below this article.
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